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Islam, Sharia Law, and Paranoia

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Decatur Deb2/21/2011 7:04:16 pm PST

re: #367 calochortus

I had to go look up Kakist. I learned something new :-) But khaki is a different word entirely, comes from the Sanskrit for “dust colored”. A very practical color in that neck of the woods. Kakist comes from the Greek for “worst”.

We might have two different groups here—In 60s African anthro classes it was “Khakist”, from the (dust-colored) uniforms. I’ll check, though in the past Googling didn’t produce much.